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In the kitchen, where she films Paula's Best Dishes, there is a personalized metal wall sign bearing the words 'Y'All Come Back.'

Home maker: The 65-year-old showed-off her home, which was built in the early Eighties, to Woman's Day for the magazine's latest issue

Meanwhile, evidence of Ms Deen's downtime hobby, 'shelling,' is littered throughout the house.

She says she was 'inspired by a local Savannah woman known as The Shell Lady, and calls the craft 'the best therapy ever.'

She has adorned at least two stone busts
'by hot-gluing seashells and starfish' and 'even [...] shells from
oyster beds that she's raked in herself.'

Ms Deen, whose Shih Tzu dogs are members of the family, added: 'The house is full of dogs, and we're always on a "turd alert" here.'

There are even carpeted dog steps leading up to her bed.

In the nursery that Ms Deen decorated
for her grandchildren, an amusement park frog ride sits in the corner, in
front of watercolored walls she painted herself.

Her own bedroom features a wood-frame
master bed with a flat-screen television that retracts from the
foot-board with a click of a remote.

Ms Deen explained it is designed 'so the TV is right in my face when I get in that bed.'

Just
outside the master bedroom, a small garden with kumquat trees provides
relaxing downtime in the sun, however she admitted of going au natural
'you have to be careful because that river is very, very busy.'

Odd ends: Ms Deen shows off her new hobby inspired by a local Savannah woman known as
The Shell Lady (left); and a frog ride in a nursery for her grandchildren

Shell lady: Ms Deen calls shelling 'the best therapy ever,' she creates her own designs by hot-gluing seashells and starfish on statues

And the covered blue-and-white patio features 'a large abalone shell sculpture that [Ms Deen] created.'

Ms Deen, also a former Masterchef
celebrity judge, faced criticism last year, after she announced that she
had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes three years ago.

New look: The February issue of Woman¿s Day features Ms Deen's weight-loss tips after making lifestyle changes to improve her health

It was also disclosed that she is a paid spokesperson for the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, and was labelled a hypocrite for continuing to promote her high calorie recipes diet while disclosing her medical condition as beneficial to her in representing the drug company's diabetes management program.

The February 2013 issue of Woman’s Day features Ms Deen's weight-loss tipsand new look after making lifestyle changes to improve her health.